You guys should at least read the entry post of OP. He asked why online gambling is illegal in the philippines, but live gambling not.
This is what I am saying few posts away, been repeating it twice already and nothing, all are just comparing online gambling and real gambling... It's obvious that everyone are just reading the title and not the OP...
Anyway, online gambling is really illegal here in the Philippines, there has been raids here and there of those operators who hides in a simple house or even hotel to operate their gambling website and purely the operators are foreigners, the reason why they've been seized to operate is because they have no papers... Along with them those live porn video operators are also targeted by the authorities, and the case is child pornography and those models that they use in their porn has no permits...
But no bitcoin was used and mentioned in the news, so probably they are the typical gambling which uses probably token or credit cards and same as in live porn...
With regards to real life casinos, most of them has permits and I haven't heard any news about illegal casinos like during the 90's... Now, all that I see and heard over the radio are the small cockfights in barrios with no permit are the ones being seized, aside from that, nothing else...